Hundreds of restaurants and takeaways with a poor hygiene record are being removed from online ordering platform Just Eat.

Any eatery that has a rating of zero will be banned from the site until it gets a clean bill of health. It will then need to get at least a rating of three before it is featured again.

Restaurants with a zero rating - meaning urgent improvement required - will be removed by May 1.

Just Eat is to invest £1million in raising food hygiene and will support any restaurant with a zero, one or two rating to improve. Money will go towards an expert visit, help to draw up an action plan and guidance on re-inspections.

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Just Eat managing director Graham Corfield said: "We know that running a small, independent business is not without its challenges, and food hygiene and safety is a vital area that restaurants need to get right.

Heather Hancock, chairman of the Food Standards Agency, said: "The company influences thousands of food businesses and reaches millions of customers.

"Quite rightly, Just Eat is making clear that food safety and hygiene must be a top priority for all their partner businesses."

These are all the Devon restaurants that currently have a food hygiene rating of zero:

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Plymouth

Rockets and Rascals on the Barbican has been given a zero (Image: Penny Cross)

Rockets and Rascals - the owners have put this rating down to the state of the building it is based in, which was built in the 1700s. Steve Toze, owner of the cafe, put out a statement earlier this month about the rating. Read that here.